The congressmen of People’s Action presented a draft constitutional reform so that the president of congress, Joseph Williams, call elections immediately in case peter castle be vacated due to temporary or permanent incapacity in his position as presidential representative and the first vice president, Dina Boluarte, cannot assume.
This is project No. 3384-2022-CR, which calls for the “interpretation of the immediate call for elections by the president of Congress when it falls on the presidential succession, regulated in the first paragraph of article 115 of the Political Constitution of Peru”.
The measure maintains that the electoral process should not only be for the position of president and vice presidents, but also for the congressmen “immediately.”
Its main author is Elvis Vergara; however, he has been supported by Ilich López, Raúl Doroteo, Juan Mori, Darwin Espinoza and Jorge López, congressmen from Acción Popular and accused by Karelim López as The children.
The Popular Action congressmen called “The Children” are investigated as a criminal organization. Photo: composition Fabrizio Oviedo/ La República.
Project Basics
According to the information accessed by this medium, the parliamentary proposal indicates that, “when the exhaustion of the presidential succession occurs due to a political crisis, the procedure to determine the line of succession must be duly specified.”
The project also takes as a reference the statements of Omar Cairo, who explains that “a call for presidential elections alone would not have legal value, because the Constitution regulates that the five years of parliament are parallel to the mandate of the president.”
“Understanding that the call for elections only includes presidential ones would break simultaneity, since the parliamentary period would not begin or end on the same date as the president,” he points out.
